Roland Boucher has had a 40 plus year career in Broadcasting, Video Production and Communications. His experience runs from Broadcast Television to Corporate Communications and Product Marketing. Mr. Boucher's IP-Based, TV News Production System Design enabled the industry transition from tape-based news production to file-based, computer editing and production, which changed the way television news is produced, world-wide. Mr. Boucher is named in the Avid patent for the first integrated digital news production system. He has also produced, directed, shot and edited documentaries. Recently he worked as a second camera and location sound man for the recent feature film, "Cowboy Spirit".
Roland has held a Commercial Pilots License with Instrument Rating and Complex Airplane Endorsement for over 19 years and he is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the National Press Photographer's Association and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
VizTools currently provides drone services to WFXT-TV Fox25 in Boston for their TV News feature stories. On the 21th of October they became the first to have produced a TV news story in Boston using an FAA approved and registered drone. VizTools shot the story with the Fox25 team at Autumn Hills Orchard in Groton:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/30326215/fox25-launches-first-drone-flight-for-fall-foliage-story
For more on Viztools visit: www.viztools.tv
For more on Roland visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolandboucher